I'm confused...

[zaph_redmantis]

Why are the Republicans talking about corporate greed? I'm not being sarcastic, aren't they supposed to be the greed is good party? Isn't self-interest the guiding principle behind the invisible hand?

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[mmaresca]

Because they have no option other than trying to distance themselves from themselves this cycle.

[zaph_redmantis]

Riiiiiight. So, they're moving away from finding market solutions. We're debating types of intervention now? I don't mind, I just want to be on the same page as everyone else. We've relegated Friedman et. al. to the dustbin then? And didn't even need to go through a depression to get there?

[captain_squid]

Dude, they fell off that wagon eight years ago with "Compassionate Conservatism." Don't fool yourself.

[zaph_redmantis]

But that was BS. If they enact more financial market regulations, and windfall taxes, they're really changing the course of the party. That just ain't Reagan.

[kaote]

For the same reason they're all about snooping and spying when they should be champions of individual privacy? :)

[zaph_redmantis]

Well, they had thrown that away when Tricky Dick was in office, but they were always great defenders of privatized solutions. That really seems to be gone.